Warumi 14
1 Mpokeeni yeyote ambaye ni dhaifu katika imani, bila kutoa hukumu kuhusu mawazo yake.
As for those whose faith is weak, always receive them as friends, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on their scruples.
2 Mtu mmoja ana imani ya kula chochote, mwingine ambaye ni dhaifu anakula mboga tu.
One person’s faith permits them to eat food of all kinds, while another whose faith is weak eats only vegetable food.
3 Mtu ambaye anakula kila kitu asimdharau yeye asiyekula kila kitu. Na yeye ambaye hali kila kitu asimuhukumu mwingine ambaye hula kila kitu. Kwa kuwa Mungu amekwisha mpokea.
The person who eats meat must not despise the person who abstains from it; nor must the person who abstains from eating meat pass judgment on the one who eats it, for God himself has received them.
4 Wewe ni nani, wewe ambaye unamuhukumu mtumishi ambaye ni miliki ya mtu mwingine? Ni mbele ya Bwana wake kwamba husimama au huanguka. Lakini atainuliwa, kwa kuwa Bwana anaweza kumfanya asimame.
Who are you, that you should pass judgment on the servant of another? Their standing or falling concerns their own master. And stand they will, for their Master can enable them to stand.
5 Mtu mmoja huthamini siku moja kuliko nyingine. Mwingine huthamini kila siku sawa sawa. Hebu kila mtu na ashawishike katika akili yake mwenyewe.
Again, one person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another considers all days to be alike. Everyone ought to be fully convinced in their own mind.
6 Yeye ambaye anashika siku, anashika kwa ajili ya Bwana. Na kwa yeye alaye, hula kwa ajili ya Bwana, kwa kuwa anampa Mungu shukrani. Yeye ambaye hali, hujizuia kutokula kwa ajili ya Bwana. Yeye pia hutoa shukrani kwa Mungu.
The person who observes a day, observes it to the Master’s honor. They, again, who eat meat eat it to the Master’s honor, for they give thanks to God; while the person who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master’s honor, and also gives thanks to God.
7 Kwa kuwa hakuna aishie kwa nafsi yake, na hakuna afae kwa ajili yake mwenyewe.
There is not one of us whose life concerns ourselves alone, and not one of us whose death concerns ourself alone;
8 Kwa kuwa ikiwa tunaishi, tunaishi kwa ajili ya Bwana. Na ikiwa tunakufa, tunakufa kwa ajili ya Bwana. Basi ikiwa tunaishi au tunakufa tu mali ya Bwana.
for, if we live, our life is for the Master, and, if we die, our death is for the Master. Whether, then, we live or die we belong to the Master.
9 Kwa kuwa ni kwa kusudi hili Kristo alikufa na kuishi tena, kwamba awe Bwana wa wote wafu na waishio.
The purpose for which Christ died and came back to life was this – that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living.
10 Lakini wewe, kwa nini unamuhukumu ndugu yako? Na wewe, kwa nini unamdharau ndugu yako? Kwa kuwa sisi sote tutasimama mbele ya kiti cha hukumu cha Mungu.
I would ask the one ‘Why do you judge other followers of the Lord?’ And I would ask the other ‘Why do you despise them?’ For we will all stand before the court of God.
11 Kwa kuwa imeandikwa, “Kama niishivyo,” asema Bwana, “Kwangu mimi kila goti litapigwa, na kila ulimi utatoa sifa kwa Mungu.”
For scripture says – ‘“As surely as I live,” says the Lord, “every knee will bend before me and every tongue will praise God.”’
12 Hivyo basi, kila mmoja wetu atatoa hesabu yake mwenyewe kwa Mungu.
So, then, each one of us will have to render account of himself to God.
13 Kwa hiyo, tusiendelee tena kuhukumiana, lakini badala yake amua hivi, kwamba hakuna atakaye weka kikwazo au mtego kwa ndugu yake.
Let us, then, cease to judge one another. Rather let this be your resolve – never to place a stumbling-block or an obstacle in the way of a fellow follower of the Lord.
14 Ninajua na nimeshawishika katika Bwana Yesu, kwamba hakuna kitu kilicho najisi chenyewe. Ni kwa yeye tu anayedhani kuwa chochote ni najisi, kwa kuwa kwake ni najisi.
Through my union with the Lord Jesus, I know and am persuaded that nothing is defiling in itself. A thing is ‘defiling’ only to the person who holds it to be so.
15 Ikiwa kwa sababu ya chakula ndugu yako anahuzunika, hautembei tena katika upendo. Usimharibu kwa chakula chako mtu ambaye kwa ajili yake Kristo alikufa.
If, for the sake of what you eat, you wound your fellow follower’s feelings, your life has ceased to be ruled by love. Do not, by what you eat, ruin someone for whom Christ died!
16 Hivyo msiruhusu matendo yenu mema yakasababisha watu kuwadhihaki.
Do not let what is right for you become a matter of reproach.
17 Kwa kuwa ufalme wa Mungu si kwa ajili ya chakula na kinywaji, bali ni kwa ajili ya haki, amani, na furaha katika Roho Mtakatifu.
For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.
18 Kwa kuwa yeye amtumikiaye Kristo kwa jinsi hii amekubalika kwa Mungu na amekubalika kwa watu.
The person who serves the Christ in this way pleases God, and wins the approval of their fellows.
19 Kwa hiyo basi, na tufuate mambo ya amani na mambo ambayo humjenga mtu na mwingine.
Therefore our efforts should be directed towards all that makes for peace and the mutual building up of character.
20 Usiharibu kazi ya Mungu kwa sababu ya chakula. Vitu vyote kwa kweli ni safi, lakini ni vibaya kwa mtu yule ambaye hula na kumsababisha yeye kujikwaa.
Do not undo God’s work for the sake of what you eat. Though everything is ‘clean,’ yet, if a person eats so as to put a stumbling-block in the way of others, they do wrong.
21 Ni vyema kutokula nyama, wala kunywa divai, wala chochote ambacho kwa hicho ndugu yako hukwazwa.
The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your fellow follower of the Lord.
22 Hizi imani maalumu ulizo nazo, ziweke kati yako mwenyewe na Mungu. Amebalikiwa yule ambaye hajihukumu mwenyewe katika kile anachokikubali.
As for yourself – keep this conviction of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy the person who never has to condemn themselves in regard to something they think right!
23 Aliye na mashaka amehukumiwa ikiwa anakula, kwa sababu haitokani na imani. Na chochote kisichotokana na imani ni dhambi.
The person, however, who has misgivings stands condemned if they still eat, because their doing so is not the result of faith. And anything not done as the result of faith is a sin.
